So far I have:
Tennessee Stud
Molly And Tenbrooks
Blue Mule
What have you got?
So far I have:
Tennessee Stud
Molly And Tenbrooks
Blue Mule
What have you got?
Is that Blue Mule of Kentucky?
"The paths of experimentation twist and turn through mountains of miscalculations, and often lose themselves in error and darkness!"
--Leslie Daniel, "The Brain That Wouldn't Die."
Some tunes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa1...SV2qtug/videos
Does it have to be a song?
Spotted Pony is a great OT tune.
Tunes are just fine, too.
I unexpectedly found this video which pleased me a lot:
Another Peter Rowan song. It is slower and probably not bluegrass or old-time, but it is about horses...!
I have a live recording from alaska where he tells a story about him playing the chords and asking his young daughter one night to "sing the words that belonged there"... Probably just another peter rowan story but it is a hauntingly good song
I should be pickin' rather than postin'
Del has this one
If it doesn't have to be BG/OT, I would throw in Chestnut Mare (Byrds) and Pony (Tom Waits).
Marty Robbins did "Strawberry Roan."
Gene Vincent, "Red Blue Jeans and a Ponytail," does that count?
Rowan Rice Quartet with Wild Mustang, with Sharon Gilchrist on Mandolin:
I should be pickin' rather than postin'
old dangerfield is named after Monroe's horse (I think)
She loves to ride horses (Guy Clark)
Flop Eared Mule ?
Wheel Hoss !
Floppy Eared Mule - good one. I should have thought of that.
Norman Blake's...Old Gray Mare. great tune.
"Stewball" The Country Gentlemen did this one.
From Wikipedia:
There are two major different versions of the sporting ballad, generally titled either "Skewball" or "Stewball"; the latter is more popular in America. There are multiple variations within the two major divisions. Versions date at least as far back as the 18th century, appearing on numerous broadsides. In both songs the title horse is the underdog in the race, up against a favored grey mare (usually called either "Griselda" or "Molly"), and although in most versions of Stewball the winning horse triumphs due to the stumbling of the lead horse, Skewball wins simply by being the faster horse in the end. Probably the most significant lyrical difference in the songs is the conversation Skewball has with his jockey, while Stewball behaves more like a typical horse and does not speak.
The oldest broadside identified with the ballad is dated 1784 and is held by the Harding Collection of the Bodleian Library of the University of Oxford. The song had spread to America by 1829 when it was published in a songbook in Hartford. American versions were sung and adapted by slaves in the Southern United States, and have Stewball racing in California, Texas, and Kentucky. British and Irish versions, when the setting is mentioned, usually place the race in Kildare, Ireland, leading some to believe that the song is actually Irish in origin.[2] The grey mare was owned by Sir Ralph Gore, whose family had gained a great deal of land in Ireland with the Protestant Cromwellian invasion (starting in 1650), which probably accounts for the delight in Skewball's win "breaking Sir Gore" in the final lines of this Irish-based broadside.[1]
The song is in the Roud Folk Song Index, #456.
Hal Jeanes
Well, obviously Camptown Races. Then there's Wakefield's New Camptown Races.
Saddle Up the Gray
Working On the New Railroad ("Once I had a big gray horse, Darrow was his name...")
Wagoner's Lad
From Earth to Heaven (Uncle Dave Macon)
Bachelor's Hall ("I rode seven horses clean to death...")
Six White Horses
Mule Skinner Blues (if we're including mules)
If you're into the "cowboy songs" genre, there's a million of 'em.
Allen Hopkins
Gibsn: '54 F5 3pt F2 A-N Custm K1 m'cello
Natl Triolian Dobro mando
Victoria b-back Merrill alumnm b-back
H-O mandolinetto
Stradolin Vega banjolin
Sobell'dola Washburn b-back'dola
Eastmn: 615'dola 805 m'cello
Flatiron 3K OM
Dead Horse Trampoline
mandomurph
Joyful pickin'!
Wild Horses at Stony Point
"Be kind to the band; they never get to dance"
Not exactly bluegrass/old time but Michael Martin Murphy's "Wildfire" came to mind.
Bill Monroe did "Goodbye Old Pal" and "Old Grey Mare Came Tearing Out of the Wilderness."
2010 Heiden A5, 2020 Pomeroy oval A, 2013 Kentucky KM1000 F5, 2012 Girouard A Mandola w ff holes, 2001 Old Wave A oval octave
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Videos: https://www.youtube.com/@hillbillychambermusic
Road apples
Timothy F. Lewis
"If brains was lard, that boy couldn't grease a very big skillet" J.D. Clampett
Bluegrass? Maybe, but I don't know. They are old time melodies, though. Apparently no lyrics
Thanks to this thread, I just discovered the 2nd one, and already having fun playing it.
Saddle the Pony
http://abcnotation.com/tunePage?a=ab...s.txt/0266&m=p
The Black Nag
http://abcnotation.com/tunePage?a=ww...cknag/0000&m=p
Me & Paul Revere by The Steep Canyon Rangers and Steve Martin
https://youtu.be/LGjZU-7D6Gk?t=1m12s
Drew
2020 Northfield 4th Gen F5
2022 Northfield NFS-F5E
2019 Northfield Flat Top Octave
2021 Gold Tone Mando Cello
https://www.instagram.com/pilotdrew85
-A horse plays a significant role in the "White House Blues"
-"White Horse Breakdown"
-The an old time line "wish I had a big fine horse, corn to feed him on" drifts between songs...
Old Paint
Old Skewball
Delaney's Donkey
Mary's Ass
Sweet Marie
Old and in the Way did a blugrass version of the Stones' Wild Horses...
Kickin' mule
Sharecropper's Son (mentions a mule)
Patti Griffin's Whole Heap of Little Horses
Last edited by Steve VandeWater; Apr-15-2015 at 8:47pm.
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